As a result of the globalization process, the number of foreign individuals that come to work in multinational companies in India and/or the Indian individuals that go to work in multinational companies abroad have significant increased. These individuals (known as 'expatriates') provide the fuel for global growth across organisations, sharing knowledge, implementing management processes or expanding business into new territories.

Our expatriate tax services include the following:

• Post arrival or pre departure formalities with documentation;
• Conducting Exit/Entry Briefing Meeting;
• Obtaining tax registration for the expatriates in India;
• Structuring of compensation from a tax perspective;
• Structuring of assignments, including reviewing employment contracts from a tax perspective;
• Evaluating treaties to examine taxability and availability of tax treaty relief to the expatriates;
• Formulating and implementing tax equalisation policies, including monitoring the tax equalisation processes, preparation of tax equalization statements;
• Calculating the hypothetical tax;
• Assistance in deposit of the withholding tax;
• Setting up tax withholding processes including running of tax withholding calculations and filing of tax withholding related statements;
• Preparing and filing income-tax returns;
• Assisting in tax assessment proceedings;
• Providing tax litigation assistance, including representation services before the appellate authorities.